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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



POETICAL WRITINGS 



BY 



ISAAC M. INMAN 



SEASIDE EDITION 



AUTHOR OF 

THE "MODIFIER," AND OTHER POEMS. 



Nbw York. 
PUBLISHED FOR THE TRADE. 

1883. 



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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by 

ISAAC M. INMAN. 

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. 



CONTENTS. 





PAGE 


LIFE . 


13 


THE FLAME 


14 


GOD 


15 


SHADOWS . . 


16 


SCIENCE 


17 


RUM AND SUPERSTITION 


19 


CONSUMPTION 


20 


THE CHRISTIAN 


22 


PHYSIC 


23 


TO SWEAR BEFOREHAND .... 


24 


NECESSITY 


25 


THE OATH 


26 


ATOMS 


27 


VERSE 


28 


A SUGGESTION 


29 


DIGESTION 


30 


OPPORTUNITIES 


32 



CONTENTS. 

PAGE 

PERFECTION 33 

THE SCRIPTURE ■ . . 34 

LONGEVITY 36 

PIRATES 37 

JUSTICE . 38 

THE MILL 40 

AGE 41 

THE SPIRIT 42 

LEARNING 45 

DEAREST MOTHER 48 

PAIN 50 

PARNELL 53 

DARWIN 57 

THE HEALTH 53 

HYGIENE .67 

ASSOCIATIONS 73 

THE NEW TESTAMENT 75 

BEECHER 77 

DEATH 78 

INFIDELS 80 

ASSISTANCE 81 

MONSTROSITY 82 



PREFACE 



When physic clogs, oh! then we go 

The road to over Jordan, 

But exercises seldom fail 

To ease us of our burden. 

Rocks have gold and wisdom thorns, 

The lion teeth and cattle horns ; 

The pen a point to prick the ear 

That modern thought may wisdom hear ; 

The dove can coo, the sheep can bleat, 

The winds can blow and waters meet ; 

The stars may shine, the planets glow, 

The sun consume all here below ; 

The churchmen rail, and kings may rule, 

The teacher criticise his school ; 

A chief may sway an ignorant horde, 

Who see no further than their lord ; 

And the physician claim his pay, 

Because he turns disease away ; 

And I. in differing, with the rest 

Can have my way ; as 1 think best. 



13 



LIFE. 

The earth from desolation took its rise, 
And change in form is all the word implies; 
Nor yet creation can the mind conceive, 
But change of form in, all that we believe. 
Like to a lamp which serves our purpose well, 
When oil and fire and wick ignited dwell, 
The wick and oil ignited turn to flame, — 
Thus flesh and blood to life, and so remain; 
And still like fire is in all nature hid, 
Which comes to light when proper measures bid; 
So mind in matter, in the stars that glow, 
The earth, the ocean, and all that we know. 
As is the body when the life has fled, 
As is the life when from the body sped, 
As God conceived the great designs we see 
In space beyond us and on earth that be, 



14 THE FLAME. 

So man took part in the existing plan, 
As earth is part of matter that we scan, 
The mind is God in matter, man and beast; 
. In bird and insect, or what lives the least, 
In tree and shrub, in every flower that blooms, 
On every planet, or where life presumes, 
All that has life or in the future will 
All that exist no other end fulfill. 
And every death wherein disease has wrought 
The fatal end, prevention can be taught; 
Nor with the past still longer to lament 
What labor can perform nor art prevent. 



THE FLAME. 



The flame which rends the forest oak 

Produces residue and smoke, 

The gorgeous plumage of the tree 

No longer bears divinity; 

But that which gave it life before 

Renews again with plumage o'er. 



GOD. 15 

Life in the atmosphere abounds, 
In ocean dwells, and space surrounds, 
O'er every mountain and its vale, 
On every hill and in its dale. 
Thus life is common that we see 
In man and beast, in bird and tree, 
In all that in the air abound, 
Within the sea, upon the ground. 



GOD. 



The mind is God which on the brain descends, 
Producing thought imperfect in its ends. 



16 



SHADOWS. 



Christ, the delight of all mankind, 

And highest figure of the mind; 

The hero of this world of ours, 

Where sin or wickedness devours; 

Whose precepts are above the view 

Of all that human can subdue; 

And like the planets which display 

Another's light to all they may; 

And like the birds which deck the air 

With arts above the human pair. 

The poor, he promised a reward 

As truly given by the Lord; 

And none are Christians who despise 

The poor, the ignorant or unwise. 

The greatest wisdom is to see 

The power of God in earth and sea; 

To comprehend his mighty plan 

In all the universal clan; 

Nor is there in this modern age 

A church which represents the Sage. 

'Tis strange, indeed, divines may know 

All learning that the world can show, 

Nor yet contaminate the good 

In churches taught if learning would; 



SCIENCE. 17 

Hence we behold within their sphere 

A monarchial atmosphere; 

And none has wisdom who defends 

The ignorance which the church comments. 

Christ's teachings are by none fulfilled, 

By some approached, by others willed ; 

Yet who can still observe and see, 

But lack in their efficiency, 

And which has emanated from 

The selfishness in priesthooddom. 



SCIENCE. 



The Church in morality further excels 
Than all other wisdom we know; 

And hence I will praise her for all she expels 
Of that which increases our woe. 

And, like a fond mother, she oft will caress 
Her offspring, though guilty they be; 



18 SCIENCE. 

While the strong hand of Science will never evade, 
But will argue till both shall agree. 

Trie father and mother of all that we know, — 

But contentions will often arise; 
And while the fond mother cannot look below, 

The father will not view the skies. 

So onward they plod in rapture's embrace, 

Dissenting each step as they go; 
Till a thousand bright years as onward they chase, 

As a day to us mortals below. 

The spires oi her palaces reach to the skies, 
While gcience her workman has none 

Bedecked with the jewels from earth and on high 
Of all that her workman hath won. 

When the twain are united in action and thought, 
Then the highest productions will rise ; 

But while disconnected, no matter how taught, 
The two will each other despise. 



19 



RUM AND SUPERSTITION 



Rum and Superstition are the same, 

Nor any difference can we name, 

Yet opposites as poisons do 

But counteract each other, too; 

And either makes the mind appear 

Unto itself as wholly clear. 

One gives a fortune in an hour, 

The other supernatural pow.er: 

Hence, take my purse or aught you find, 

And give me liberty of mind. 

But of the two, their victims lay 

As ten to one religion's way; 

And he who lives till threescore years 

And ten have passed, between them steers. 



20- 

CONSUMPTION. 

Consumption is the first I will describe, 

Of all the horrid ills that men betide. 

Should earth but cease its motion round the sun, 

Then were consumption of the earth begun; 

Imagine what infections then would spring 

Upon the earth to every living thing. 

To eat and drink will not suffice for man, 

But like the earth he must a circle span, 

And every law which may to health apply 

Fulfill it quite or of diseases die. 

Consumption is the chief of all the ills 

That indolence contracts and work expels. 

Disease and lightning have one end in view 

To crush the filthy and the good renew. 

Dyspepsia is the next I choose to treat 

As one effect of indolence we meet. 

All fevers from dyspepsia take their rise, 

As waters from the ocean flood the skies; 

And what the earth without those waters were 

The system without labor can infer. 

As all diseases have their source and flow 

Through lack of effort, we a cure may know; 

An effort to restrain from overcare, 

To leave undone that which will health impair; 



CONSUMPTION. 21 

To exercise the mind more than the frame, 
When health requires it, or the mind restrain ; 
To change our habits, or increase our care, 
To give to others what is not our share. 
The brute alone beneath the power to choose 
Must subject be, because it cannot use 
The power of thought, the exercise of miud, 
The energy of will and frame combined. 
No fears of death enchant us nor disarm, 
Like serpents' eyes upon the birds they charm, 



22 



THE CHRISTIAN. 



That which compels is what we heed, 
From error free 'twill bless the deed ; 
Like to the lever and the press, 
Hydraulic power, the world to bless. 

'Tis not in learning, nor in books 
By infidels, 'tis in the testament he looks, 
Beyond them all and sees a light 
Which with his faith obscures the night. 

Since culture then is what we need, 
To cultivate, he then must read 
The Scriptures over many times, 
Without he sought, within he finds 

The pathway open to his view 
Where good for evil he must do ; 
To love his foe more than his friend 
And to the bad assistance lend ; 

To study nature's laws and do, 
As Christ has taught we have in view ; 
Whose will is still within our frame 
With life implanted to remain. 



23 



PHYSIC 



In the absence of knowledge we take that which 
brings 

The greatest influence for good, 
And thus with religions, the moral man sings 

A chorus by him understood. 

As a child while in creeping makes effort to walk, 

Considering each object a prize 
That assists in the least, and to it will talk, 

But later such efforts despise, 

So when we are able to resist a disease 

By mental and physical law, 
We'll forsake the weak efforts we made then of 
these 

And the worship of objects we saw. 



24 



TO SWEAR BEFOREHAND. 

Excuse my wanderings which appear 
So unconfined to christian faith ; 

Christ taught that no one should foreswear ; 
To break His laws is our disgrace. 

But we foreswear because He taught 

That it is sinful so to do ; 
Foreswearing means to swear before ; 

That we'll perform the act in view. 

The greatest ill that e'er befell 

The human race which He foresaw ; 

But let your words be yes, or no 
To judge and jury, or withdraw. 

I see within the sacred book, 
Its teachings are by far the best 

To do, believe, nor further look, 
Since nought in other giveth rest. 

Swear not at all, is what He taught, 

By heaven, nor earth, nor aught besides ; 

Nor on the Scripture which He wrought — 
Since each translation alters wide. 



25 



NECESSITY. 



Some things I see as necessary quite 
To health preserve for him who takes delight. 
The first is that I may conviction bring, 
The second is that truth o'er falsehood wing ; 
The third is to believe, the fourth to see, 
The fifth to do, the sixth to equal be ; 
The seventh is to labor when he feels 
That indigestion through his system steals ; 
The eighth to know what causes the abuse, 
The ninth a remedy and proper use. 
All fevers, aches, — nor can we name an ill 
That effort will not cure, if so we will ; 
The high, the low, the rich and poor, alike 
Fall victims to the snare, with health in sight 



26 



THE OATH, 



The oath includes the superstitions taught 
In all religions, nor perfection sought ; 
And thus, sectarian in the highest sense, 
Enforcing all, nor offering defence. 
Thus, may we shudder, at our nation's wrong 
Of idol worship, which it helps along 
In e'er rejecting what is not of creed, 
Despising honor, if from error freed. 
A perfect mind is not the chief delight 
Of this, our nation, to enforce the right ; 
But, superstitions it at once admits 
And in admitting, it the more begets. 




27 



ATOMS 



As a single drop of water 

To a river in its fall, 
So is man, nor less important 

Than the God who ruleth all ; 

As a river to an ocean, 

Giving increase to the store, 

So is man, — with all rewarded 

That he gives, — to God, and more. 

As an ocean to the ether, 

As the planets to the sun, 
So is man to God, to either, 

And to each and every one ; 

As the system to all others 
Where the mind alone can go, 

So is all the eye discerneth 

When compared with what we know ; 

As that which, in comprehending, 
Fills the mind with peace and joy, 

So, the smallest sin offending 
Changes it to an alloy. 



28 



VERSE. 



Some kinds of verse my soul rejects, 
And some enliven and inflame 

My inward sense to see ; 
Though by one hand they both were wrought. 
Yet half is dead to inward thought 

Nor all relates for me ; 

But other minds the rest entrance, 
Absorbing interest and advance 

In fields where they delight ; 
So bees for honey roam at will, 
And find reserved for them to fill 

Their sacks, and take their flight. 

While others still on prose are bent, 
And nectar find to their content, 

And loathe poetic minds ; 
But of the two I must confess, 
That poetry so gaily dressed, 

To higher flight inclines. 



29 



A SUGGESTION. 



Religions, so true, but the future should view, 

And not, to the present confine 
Their prophecies, with, a promise to give 

What labor, alone, can devine. 

If their good, has surmounted the evils I've 
counted, 

In admitting that health is in law, 
That may I discover, as of truth I'm a lover, 

And in future detraction withdraw : 

And yet I affirm it ; as, we may discern it, 

That all in compliance does rest ; 
But, that health through digestion, is out of the 
question, 

Unless, with religion we're blessed. 



30 

DIGESTION 



How thousands suffer from the dire effects 
Of indigestion, and its rules complex ! 
A thousand arrows furrow through the brain, 
And every art renews a former pain. 
Dire indigestion, with its train of ills, 
Performs its course and ever} r circle fills. 
A problem for relief let all prepare, 
And take unto themselves an equal share. 
As geometrical reasoning we survey, 
So of the system to prevent decay. 
How may I raise the standard of this work, 
That all shall see what objects in it lurk ? 
First, none believe, and, though they feel decay, 
Still doubt the truth and turn the good away. 
Labor, of all the graces, is my theme, 
And much adored in every line shall teem ; 
The sluggard and the sot have here no part, 
But grace and beauty, science, love and art, 
Are what compel my pen each line to run, 
To give the sot his due, nor sluggard shun. 
Let education be the first to name, 
And every good will follow in its train ; 
It gives us health, it gives us all we need ; 
Defies the doctor and despises creed. 



DIGESTION. 31 

Doctors are swords which lay the patient low, 
And preachers pamper to an easy show. 
Eeason gives health, and the reverse decay : 
To cure disease give energy its sway. 
The sun in liquid ore gives forth its heat, 
And radiant light in rapid waves retreat ; 
The fishes glide from every nook to scan, 
All life observes, nor, wondering, solves the plan. 
Death, the most potent of all human ills, 
And dire disgrace to him who early fills. 
Life is the sweetest of all earthly charms, 
The rose of nature dappled in her arms ; 
Bright, fragrant, long an ever-blooming rose, 
Which shocks her most to prematurely close. 
The grandest gem of all that being works, 
And in whose trust her every effort lurks. 
Matter we name for all that does exist 
Separate from mind in other worlds or this. 
Eeason in every natural law perceive, 
Far as the eye can see or mind believe : 
But why I write is not to overthrow 
The good I see, but evil that I know. 
From lack of thought the system withers down, 
The nerves relax, and all the ills abound. 
When all goes sweetly as the babbling brook, 
No pain attends,but sweetness crowns each look. 
Though, when from other causes death assails, 



32 OPPORTUNITIES. 

The bank o'erflows and torrents fill the vales. 
But two conditions intercept our path : 
Age, when matured, and indolence at last. 
Thus, laws impartial sway with equal force, 
Nor spare the rubbish in their destined course ; 
Which laws are perfect, and would death defy 
Ere age, matured, would every man comply ; 
And with each organ in its full display, 
No future equals what we know to-day : 
Impartial quite, to infant as to man, 
To creed impartial and to every plan. 



OPPORTUNITIES. 



Of every ill the mind surveys, 

As idle steps and thoughtless ways, 

Neglect of time and chance, 
The last it teaches us to prize, v 
Nor comes again, but onward flies, 

Though after we advance ; 



PERFECTION. 33 

Like birds alight, like loves they come, 
Like stars that twinkle in the sky ; 
Too far away by night and day, 
And thus we miss them, you and I. 



PERFECTION. 



Perfection is not seen in any creed; 
Yet be ye perfect as therein we read: 
But all religions have some good in view, 
To profit in this life, and after too. 
As still our raiment and our food, we know, 
To great exertion in ourselves we owe, 
So indolence suggests that all beyond, 
The faith supplies an inexhaustive fund, — 
Blasphemous words that devils could command, 
And with a flood of woe submerge the land. 
Thanks to the churches for their useful art, — 
And all who toil therein may claim a part; 
But when religions can assume a sway, 
They curse the land and generate decay. 
What great convulsions Gallileo wrought 



34 ATHEISM. 

Within the church by giving birth to thought; 
The laws of health are equally as clear, 
And they who can observe no sickness fear; 
Enough exertion to digest our food 
Supplies existence and asserts the mood. 
But too much labor is like too much rain, 
Which overflows the land and drowns the grain; 
And not enough is like the parching hill 
That thirsteth for the valley's overfill. 
Thus are the rich in opulence oppressed, 
The poor through want and poverty distressed ; 
And in the two extremes is every woe 
That God would overcome and man forego. 



THE SCRIPTURE. 



Its teachings are equal and each book a sequel, 
Like steps in ascending up higher to view, 

Of all that preceded, of all that is needed, 
And all a perfection and each of them new. 

But that which was heeded, as formerly needed, 
As witches, no longer disturbs our repose ; 



THE SCRIPTURE. 35 

Opinions will alter, so never to falter, 

Say that which deters me, now overboard goes. 

For time will determine, that parts are but vermin,. 

Which now we believe and hold them as true ; 
'Tis not what it stateth, 'tis not what it hateth, 

But that which is taught us determines our view. 

As, the churches in number increase and en- 
cumber, 
Where, formerly, one drew all to itself ; 
So let the great teacher, become our own 
preacher, 
For power is within him, when not on the 
shelf. 
He cannot mislead you, his wisdom will feed you 
With bread, and with meat, and with raiment 
besides ; 
And your disbelieving, will vanish, on leaving 
Those parts where you stumble, the others 
abide. 

Like a ship on the ocean, so pay your devotion 

So far as you're able, at least in your way, 
If thirst, or if hunger had pressed you, though 

younger, 
You'd have searched for a morsel, by night and 

by day. 



36 



LONGEVITY. 



To health preserve we must observe 

The laws of God to man, 
In all their multitude of ways, 

And note their chief demand : 

As raiment may protract our day, 

So proper food will give 
Some elements which law demands, 

That we may longer live. 

Yet words convey but half we say ; 

So little good, I fear, 
Is in the line I now design 

To make my meaning clear. 

Though oft need enforces, and daily discourses, 
To energy prompts us against our desire ; 

Yet indolence teaches that slothfulness reaches 
The root of diseases, and thus we expire. 

To death defy, with law comply, 

Till exercise of mind 
And body too, the system through, 

Cleanse all as God designed; 



PIRATES. 37 

Till age arrives to precious lives, 

When exercise will fail, 
And mind give way at close of day, 

And nature draws the veiL 



Then things occult give a result 

Reversing all we do, 
When death arrives and us deprives 

Of all that's earthly too. 



PIRATES. 



Where goodness, comfort, peace and plenty; 

Pleasure, happiness, delight; 
All that go to charm our senses, 

Or to make the future bright; 

Where the ocean's massive billows 
Crown the shore with crystal spray, 

And a light the night dispelling, 
Changing darkness into day; 



38 



Cankered, cancered and corrupted, 
Cursed with filth of soul and mind ; 

Sprung from harlots and detested 
That invented the design; 

Ignominious, leprous liars, 
Filthy and polluted through, 

From the dregs of populations 
Are they who repeated too. 

Pirates they ? Not son, nor daughter, 
Nor descendants of a band; 

And as evidence substantial, 
Let my honor fall or stand. 



JUSTICE, 



A justice sat upon the bench; 

His hair was grey, his beard was white" 
His features represented strength, 

Which nought but culture can unite. 



JUSTICE. 39 

The judge's princely pay is but 

A theft from culture of the poor, 
Which, if in education used, 
'Twere as a harvest at their door. 

Six thousand years "will not suffice, 
Though he has written a digest, — 

Perhaps a multitude of lies, — 

At least he sanctions them at best: 

But pride and pomp ne'er stoop to think 

And view the misery around; 
One sees itself as on the brink 

The other on perpetual ground: 

Between the two the poor succumb 
To misery and shame, through fear 

Of claiming what they justly own, 
But usurped by a prouder peer. 

Do you believe the Bible ? he 

A question asked me to propound ; 

But, where there contradictions seem, 
I can observe that truths abound. 

As, in the sentences, we read, 
An eye for eye, a tooth for tooth, 



10 THE MILL. 

The like, which Christ again decreed 
With love, a bitterer reproof. 

So, all such contradictions seen 
Are reconciled, if we will view 

The spirit, meaning and intent, 

With which the prophets had to do. 

Whose subjects matter were ; as, we 
Take things at hand, oft poorly sought, 

To represent some truths we see, 

So, Christ with such perfection taught. 



THE MILL. 



Creation is my theme, — not to restore, 
But to make plain what was not so before. 
Laws do exist which govern distant suns ; 
From those which govern ours the knowledge 

comes. 
Like to a mill with every part complete, 
And power to turn the wheel and grind the wheat 



AGE. 41 

Whose organ is the mind, whose wheat is thought, 
Whose system is the mill as God has wrought. 
Condition is the source of a disease, 
More than the food we eat or air we breathe ; 
Nor Will our raiment for that part suffice. 
Exertion is the power that most supplies, 
Which acts unseen, unaided, undefined, 
To check diseases, and by God designed. 



AGE 



In various ways I've tried to take the fort 
Which baffles every effort and support; 
And how we should proceed to overcome 
Death in maturing age, is taught by none. 
Nature alone heals more than we suppose 
In forcing some to labor for their clothes; 
Others, through pride that they may all excel; 
But more to keep from starving longer dwell. 
Some efforts of the mind alone will do, 
But more require the muscles active too. 



42 THE SPIRIT. 

A cold requires that raiment added be, 
And fevers ice to cool the burning sea ; 
So Indolence requires an active brain, 
And too much labor that we rest again. 



THE SPIRIT. 



Unable, to perceive that which is right, 
Through sins of flesh which wrap the soul in night, 
Whose fleshy lust is foremost in the mind 
As of a beast, in man and woman kind ; 

The high, seraphic, spiritual sight 
Of Christ, is lost when other thoughts delight. 
The right performed, no more we need advance, 
^Tlie pathway clear, new joys our soul enhance. 

Nature succumbs, and clouds all disappear, 
The sun breaks forth with music to the ear ; 
As in a garden cultivated well, 
Where roses bloom, whose odors we can smell. 



THE SPIRIT. 4B 

So is the path of righteousness within, 
While that without is tumult fear and sin ; 
A righteous man or woman helps to make 
A better world, of which we all partake ; 

And thus of evils, what have been before, 
Nor rooted up, stand ready at the door. 
Because of being equal to the word 
In Scriptures taught, the honor was conferred . 

On Christ, who answered and was equal to 
What prophecy foretold, in Him we view 
A man, but perfect ; human, yet divine, 
God in the flesh, and born of womankind, 

The time will come to free Him from the earth v 
By God created, and without a birth ; 
As now from man His birth is not beheld, 
So then, from woman He shall be expelled ; 

Born of a goddess, etherial, divine ; 
Not born of flesh, nor yet of womankind, . 
Descended from the clouds, a gift divine, 
Till mith and mystery the whole entwine ; 



44 THE SPIRIT. 

When, fables will arise around the head, 
Obscure His virtues, and pronounce them dead; 
His teachings will, when rightly understood, 
Perfect our health ; as He desired they should. 

Thus, take a solid footing that will last, 
Proclaim Him man, and hold His virtues fast ; 
The spiritual meanings are too fine 
For flesh and blood, we need a coarser kind ; 

More like ourselves, but perfect all throughout, 
In thought, in action, and as God devout ; 
A model for all men, and yet divine, 
Born not of man and yet of womankind. 



45 

LEARNING. 



The dregs and poverty, 
The filth and woe 

Of human carnage teem 
Where'er we go ; 

And in proportion to 
The learning had, 

Morality alone 
O'ercomes the bad ; 



Once barren lands, 

As fertile fields appear, 

When that which gives health 
Allays our fear. 

Books are the best 
To temper every part, 

The sciences preferred 
And those of art ; 

Whose power is yet unseen, 
Whose worth unknown ; 



4£ LEARNING. 

From darkness unto light 
The world has grown. 

Kings totter on their thrones, 
The pulpit bends ; 

Physicians own their sway 
As light ascends. 

All crooked limbs, 

Impediments of speech ; 

What physic will not cure 
This art will teach. 

It gives us life ; 

It raises from the dead ; 
It heals the sick, 

And sees the hungry fed ; 

It clothes the naked, 
And it gives us light ; 

It makes our pathway clear 
And broad and bright ; 

It heals the blind, 

And makes the future clear 



LEARNING. 47 

The past a pleasure, 
And the present dear. 

Like grace once had, 

So they who often fall 
Benew their strength 

By going over all. 

The festering parts of cities 

Need this cure, 
Of country towns 

And villages obscure. 

Though doctors will deny 

And preachers scorn, 
But effort will supply, 

Of carnage shorn. 



Like wolves they prey, 

Like vultures swoop above 

The weaker forms 

They but profess to love; 

Whose lives enriching theirs, 
Whose strength they need, 



48 DEAREST MOTHER. 

Whose only morsel 
Satisfies their greed: 



DEAREST MOTHER. 



Dearest mother, life's long treasure, 
May thou ne'er forsake the earth, 

Ere thy fruitful seeds of wisdom 
In me sown may prove thy worth. 



Though I vary from thy teachings, 
Yet thy virtue is the root ; 

To reclaim me thou art thinking, 
For thy guide the holy book : 



DEAREST MOTHER. 49 

Ever pointing onward, upward 

Where I plainly see the light ; 
And thine own unwearied efforts, 

As of angels, aid my sight. 

Since, departed to that haven 

Where all tongues and kindreds meet, — 
As the sunrise out of darkness, 

In its brightness guide my feet. 



50 



PAIN 



Christ preached the truth, but noue believed 

Save they who would excel; 
For want of occupation, none 

But fishermen would tell, 
Or they who knew not what to do; 

And so to-day, as well. 

His teachings are philosophy 

Developed in this age; 
Ere time began, ere it shall end, 

No alteration made. 
Had he not lived, the same had been, 

But darker and delayed. 

God in the ocean, on the land, 

And in the stars is seen; 
And they who would protection know 

Need only be serene, 
And count his blessing as they flow, 

Nor part with any while below. 



PAIN. 51 



That more abundant we may live, 

And more abundant see 
That more abundant we may feel, 

And more abundant be, 
'j?o heal the woe that mortals know, 

And from it to be free. 

This is God's law, but some excel 

In manner and in form, 
In decency, but all as well 

Are equally forlorn 
Who lose a life in any strife 

But a decrepit form. 

Nor do they all, nor any one 

Perform the will of God, 
Who has an ache, a pain, a cramp, 

That treadeth on his sod, 
Since all are free who will so be 

As free from pain as God. 

Nor do I in myself survey 
A power that thus can heal: 

God is the author, to convey, 
I inwardly do feel, 



52 PAIN. 

An irresistible desire 
To every part reveal 

If I the gateway may be made 

By which they enter in 
From that perfection as they see, 

But which I know is sin; 
Then were I made what I would be, 

An instrument of Him. 



53 



PARNELL. 



A man with wisdom from on high, 

Such as the churches give, 

Deficient quite to aid the right, 

To show the wrong, oppose the strong: 

An orator of high degree, 

But not a match for Poi3ery. 

Nor can he see the ancient wrong 
Which bows his people down; 

And which has drained 

The land of wealth, its soul of health; 
And though all men to pity yield, 
The right alone must gain the field. 

But Borne; thou prostituted place, 
Extravagant, unwise; 

Where all the wealth of Ireland flows; 

Diminished brain, 
Till, like a desert, it presents 
The want of sound intelligence. 



54 PARNELL. 

Eeduced to idiotic state 

Through pontifical power, 

From whence it never can regain 
What it has lost, excepting shame ;- 

A maniac and nothing more, 

A fool, a slave to Popish lore. 



An indigent, descanting race 
The papal powers have been, 

A herd of rascals, thieves and knaves, 

The confidence to win; 
And, but for opposition made, 
The world in poverty were laid. 

As Ireland is, so every land 

That's sanctioning thy power; 
A want of intellect shall reap, 
A cause to suffer and to weep; 

Diminished brain, diminished strength; 

Nor intellect at all, at length. 

And what, as in return, hast thou, 

The vilest power, to give ? 

The teachings all of Christ are plain 
Which thou obscurest to remain; 



PARNELL. 55 

Nor like his teachings hast thou been. 
Nor canst thou be, because of sin. v 

He had no place to lay his head, — 

Thy followers the same; 

He washed their feet, but they kiss thine : — 
Art thou the fruit of such a vine ? 

I think not, but of the same 

That he did thorns and thistles name. 

And hence thy needs can but increase, 

Thy favors are but frowns, — 
The only recompense we see 
Which can proceed at all from thee. 

And had poor Ireland but retained 

Her wealth, her honor yet remained. 

But aid by God to her is sent, 

That she have leisure to repent, 
And cease to aid the Papal power 
Which thus her portion can devour; 

Or, as the wealth already lost. 

Her name be added to the cost. 

The race, no longer then distinct, 
Will leave the land which gave it birth; 



56 PARNELL. 

Like hosts upon a phantom sea, 

Into the blank eternity; 
But rather may she e'er remain, 
And scorn the land which wrought her shame. 



Without the means to purchase bread; 
How may her intellect increase ? 

Not by a ritual, understood 

By none who listen, though 'twere good; 
But rather with the teacher's aid, 
From elements in science made. 



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DARWIN 



Lulled in the bosom of eternal thought, 
Descent to trace and progress to behold ; 

Beyond whose ken the vilest wretch perceives 
A hope not by him told. 

The soul like matter is eternal too, 

Which none can prove, but each may compre- 
hend, 
And he who fears the whirlpool Darwin drew 

Shall surely enter in. 

Who deals with matter and with it alone, 

But whence the mind that drew the picture 
bright ; 

Christ gave us hope without a darker doom, 
But Darwin gave us night. 

From whence a mind that cannot comprehend, 
That which a greater did not fail to see ? 

Each in his part is right nor hope to find 
In such, a unity. 



58 THE HEALTH. 

THE HEALTH. 

Indications of consumption are the results of 
neglect, which geometrical exercises and phys- 
ical exertions will cure. Physicians should not 
be blamed for desiring a large practice, nor is it 
ever too large for them ; neither should they 
blame me for striving to diminish it ; a task 
which they would not attempt ; and which is a 
very difficult matter, since our labors are, as it 
were, laid down by a supreme hand, and to 
whose providence we ascribe all premature 
deaths ; but the disgrace of which, since it is 
nothing else, rests with ourselves. Food taken 
into the stomach, without proper mental and 
physical exertion to digest it, has killed more 
than the sword ; and medicines taken to give it 
digestion, has killed more than the food. The 
human system is as perfect as the mind of the 
Author who formed it, and hence it is adapted 
to enjoy continued health. I believe in the use 
of medicines, but exercises act on the system 
like leaven does in bread, and makes us healthy. 



THE HEALTH. 59 

The world has never given the subject proper 
attention, and by some, manual labor is consid- 
ered as being disgraceful ; but such should die 
early. God has given us more means for pre- 
serving the health than he has for satisfying the 
palate. Creation and preservation are alike, 
and he who preserves his life amid the advanc- 
ing host of diseases which surround us, and 
arrives at an honorable old age, has divinity in 
him. 

There is a power in mental exertion alone 
which will set all of the machinery of the human 
system in motion ; and it is of that kind which 
requires the greatest effort to accomplish, and a 
sufficient amount of such exercises added to an 
abundance of manual labor, will give us health 
— nor ought we to know that malaria or other 
diseases exist in our atmosphere. Such labors 
create an appetite, and hungry people have no 
need of a physician. Hunger, created by medi- 
cines, has sent thousands to Florida, but more 
to eternity. Many people who go to the moun- 
tains in search of health, die on the way, 



60 THE HEALTH. 

because they forget to take it with them. There 
is no place like home for health, as there, one 
is under no restraint ; he can become his own 
servant, and create an appetite for himself. 
Every house has health in it, you cannot drive 
it out, you cannot look without seeing it, which 
flows in like daylight. 

Now, as a musical instrument when out of 
tune never can tune itself, so the human system 
when out of order can never put itself in order, 
therefore, it is plain that the mind must be 
employed to do so. When we have no appetite, 
to eat food will not give us one, and when the 
art of the physician fails to create an appetite 
for us, it is evident that we have no remedy but 
in an intelligence superior to his. Had we no 
need of such intelligence, or were premature 
deaths as rare as we could wish, or, if our ceme- 
teries were not filled with the graves of children 
and the middle aged, I would not disturb the 
tranquil waters which allow their millions to 
sink early in life. There is a tree, which is that 
of sorrow, bearing fruit over the graves of 



THE HEALTH. 61 

youth, while over that of a mature life there is 
none ; and since we have every facility for pro- 
longing life, it is worth our while to preserve it. 
The older we become the more interested we 
are in the affairs of this world, and as there is 
nothing but what we would give in exchange 
for life, so every day is gain. 

The conditions which go to support existence, 
seem to be so complicated that we flee from 
them and embrace death, and in so doing, we 
go over to the enemy, but never without having 
first discharged half of our ammunition into his 
face, when the whole of it would have van- 
quished him. 

The low esteem in which life is held, gives 
rise to all of the diseases which afflict humanity. 
The human system is a natural structure, but a 
divine comprehension of it is what we need ; 
nor is it to be learned in the dissecting-room, 
nor in a medical laboratory, nor in anything 
which pertains to them, as, in such has never 
been discovered the art by which mental energy 
sets all of its machinery in motion. Physicians 



62 THE HEALTH. 

may see that the system is in order, but there is 
something needed beyond their power, and that 
rests in the patient. 

Manual labor has fountains of health as large 
as the solar system ; but geometrical exercises 
have fountains as large as the universe. They 
are natural springs which will cost us nothing 
but effort, and one will support the other. 
They act upon a diseased system like rain does 
upon vegetation — they nourish and give it color. 
They are rivers of health which will flow on till 
eternity ; nor ought we to expect that former 
efforts will suffice for the present. Who can 
conceive of anything more beautiful than the 
world on which we live, with vast oceans, beau- 
tiful vegetation, mountains and valleys. I am 
sure that God could have made it no better, 
and if we cannot suggest an improvement, it is 
the best condition in which we can exist. The 
sciences have two values, one to instruct the 
mind and the other to make us healthy ; the 
effort of the mind sets the system in motion, 
and the system sets all that is foreign to it in 



THE HEALTH. 63 

motion, which manual labor accomplishes in a 
like manner. That a strong and robust con- 
stitution is a gift independent of our own 
actions is usually allowed, but that it should 
be given to mechanics, and to others whose 
labors require it, proves that their constitutions 
conform to their habits, and that manual exer- 
cises are healthy. 

Society has strange . laws, many of which are 
not founded upon reason ; as that which ban- 
ishes all exercises but those of a mental nature ; 
and if things themselves did not cause a com- 
plete revolution in our planinng, the Earth would 
become depopulated, since having to labor is 
bitterly lamented, but, as the soul has no death, 
it is our duty to preserve the health, and I am 
sure that this life is the most excellent of all. 

Health is an attribute of the mind which 
relates to the body, and for this reason it has 
been treated with contempt and neglect by the 
churches, by whom it is considered as a gift, 
and so death is looked upon as being the will 
of God at the time it takes place, and our own 



64 THE HEALTH. 

errors become a form of worship. There are 
many kinds of employments that will make us 
healthy, providing, if one of them is not suffi- 
cient that another be added to it ; as geometry, 
the effort required in mechanical exercises, 
manual labor and recreations. 

Had we no knowledge of an existence of the 
soul after death, our merits would entitle us to 
rewards, and our sins to punishments ; but as 
advocating love has failed to accomplish perfect 
results, we must add capacity to it. 

Education is the foundation of an infidelity 
which enlightens the mind, gives us health, 
frees us from priestcraft, and a train of super- 
stitions which enslave the mind and torment 
our lives. 

"Whenever we hate an individual, or a people, 
on account of religion, we call it love. As long 
as we believe that diseases and afflictions are 
God's will, we have no right to counteract 
them, as it increases our sins and defeats the 
Almighty. 

The sciences have religion in them, as what 



THE HEALTH. 65 

we eat has of intoxicating liquors : and, as one 
is sufficient for the body so is the other for the 
mind, without being distilled. God exhausts 
his own strength continually, nor will he ever 
be more powerful than he is to-day, bat man 
has not comprehended himself. The mind is 
governed by matter, and matter by the mind 
alternately, and, unless the organs of the body 
are kept in a healthy condition they will reject 
their tenant. Superstitions make us at war 
with our own existence, as they destroy our 
health and shorten our lives. 

The art of the physician will be considered as 
a secondary one before the laws of nature are 
understood. 

That the result of those laws — as games for 
amusement, literature, mathematical exercises, 
and many others which assist digestion and 
divert the mind from any sad condition of the 
body should be wholly forgotten by the medical 
faculty — is an evidence that they treat the sys- 
tem of man as though it were that of a brute, 
and without knowing that the mind can be so 



66 THE HEALTH. 

employed as to give digestion to its own mem- 
bers, and that the human family differ in this 
respect from the rest of the animal creation. 

In health, manual labor and mental exertion 
act upon the digestive organs like water falling 
upon the wheel of a mill, which gives motion to 
all of its machinery, and until that is understood 
and acted upon, the system, when deprived of 
its usual activity, will be troubled with an indi- 
gestion affecting the whole body, and over 
which the art of the physician can have but lit- 
tle influence. 

However beneficial labor may be, yet recre- 
ation becomes necessary, and from the .over- 
worked brain of one to the vegetating growth in 
another, we should break through all barriers 
till we reach the age of perfection, and extend 
the average of life from thirty years to that of 
eighty, until a disease in no case can interrupt 
our existence, and an equilibrium is accom- 
plished in us. 



67 



HYGIENE. . 

The Son of God, as no one else, was Christ : 
But thorns grow where the roses most entice. 
As, in the sayings of the poets, too, 
Facts are preserved in fictions that we view. 
His many words, herculean strength support, 
Applied to self they are our last resort ; 
But what in Him was wanting, is supplied 
In more abundance with the present tide. 
Within thyself behold what Earth affords, 
What heaven can give, and with thy hope ac- 
cords. 
Seek, rather than without, that which may guide 
Where fountains murmur and where rivers hide. 
But men are better far than when He came, 
And through His teachings that we yet retain ; 
Whose outward chasings all attract the eye, 
And some with diamonds in their lustres vie ; 
Yet are His meanings varied in extent, 
As colors of the sun to objects lent : 
But what advantage can the priesthood see 
In all I've written on longevity, 



68 HYGIENE. 

Since every death that's premature in years 
Their order as a sacrifice prepares ? 
The fishes and the loaves illustrate quite, 
How nature multiplies beyond our sight. 
Christ is the germ, the ancients Him declared, 
And we should cultivate what He prepared. • 
The clown enjoys a versatile display, 
The statesman honor, and the lawyer pay ; 
The preacher reverence, but the poet pride 
In what present cannot now decide. 
But, pending fires in Earth the mountains move, 
And mutterings of the mind as cyclones prove. 
A want of prayer our inward sense obstructs, 
Creates diseases and the world corrupts ; 
So that which lengthens life can be observed, 
Throughout His teachings in the books pre- 
served. 
All truth survives, the evils disappear, 
And time alone can make His teachings clear. 
Sift education from among the chaff, 
And with its many virtues guard thy path ; 
The heart to strengthen and His will to know, 
Ourselves to comprehend and what we owe ; 



HYGIENE. GO 

Of God the essence and of men the first, 
Whose culminating virtues through Him burst. 
No prayer is answered but that which is right, 
Thus prayers are futile in defective sight. 
Great is the Earth but omnipresence more, 
On which the Earth depends for fruitful store. 
Pain is aversion, pleasure is delight, 
From either wrong proceeds, from either right. 
Impetuous youth runs headlong in the race, 
While all is new and phantoms only chase ; 
The middle-aged on sterner things are bent ; 
Observing follies which the youth invent ; 
But hoary heads, whose life is nearly run, 
Have tried the whole and repetition shun. 
If Christ, from Abraham and David rose, 
Why, then, but Joseph's pedigree disclose : 
But more important still and without end, 
Is that on which the length of lives depend, 
Digestion first, of all the arts we view, 
Is that to be acquired in what we do ; 
Nor is my muse impartial to the kind 
Of labors I shall name for frame and mind. 
Some love the field, while others love the flood, 



70 HYGIENE. 

And some the mountain ranges or the wood. 
First, measure what fatigue thou canst endure, 
With plow or axe, or hunting ground secure : 
Gro where the fishes in the water glide, 
And find their haunts with each returning tide ; 
Or, where the meadow birds in sedges sleep, 
And with thy gun and dog upon them creep ; 
Rise with the sun, or ere the break of day, 
And roam the field and mountain for thy prey ; 
Let perspiration through thy clothing run 
As from a bath again to homeward come ; 
Be teamster now and to the stables go, t 
Hitch up the horses and assist to mow 
If in the winter on the ice be found, 
And with thy skates to measure circle round ; 
But if on literature thy mind is bent 
Forsake the poets as an evil sent ; 
Choose mathematics, and those parts survey, 
Where problems enter in, to prove the way ; 
Or, search the hidden parts of Earth to know, 
How mountains form and where at last they go ; 
Why shells are found beneath the surface rock, 
And what the ancients were as fish or flock ; 



HYGIENE. 71 

Nor level with a beast, to all depend 

Upon a drug, and haste untimely end, 

Then elements united scatter death, 

Demoralize the mind and stop the breath ; 

Perspiring always, without which no good 

At all results, nor am I understood. 

Some kinds of seeds will not with others mix, 

And some again their attributes affix ; 

So I, while differing in a minor part, 

My own engraft the sciences and art. 

God cannot make men perfect or he would, 

Perfection is by none yet understood ; 

Whose power is second, that of man is first 

To accomplish good and maladies reverse. 

Learning alone must elevate the low, 

As without learning none presume to know ; ' 

Each age produces what the past has not, 

And every era has a Christ begot. 

The Trinity at last shall men include, 

And to that end the priesthood are imbued. 

The sermon on the Mount I highly prize, 

And many another part with wisdom vies ; 

As much there is in every book we find, 



72 HYGIENE. 

Explaining truth and fathoming the mind. 
Thus, life in various ways to men appear 
As right divine to kings, in sects 'tis fear ; 
In the unlearned, 'tis knowledge leads astray, 
And with the Jews that we should them obey. 
But like a pyramid is what I've built, 
Of problems outward, and within of silt, 
Not yet cemented by the hand of time, 
As all, imperfect, that we think divine. 
Health, peace and plenty every step affords 
Excess to shun and indolence abhorred ; 
All that is known for recreations find, 
To church on Sunday, as by God designed, 
For evenings games and converse by the way ; 
Through daylight labor and in darkness pray. 



73 



ASSOCIATIONS. 



God cannot do what men desire 

If to the wrong they still aspire, 

As then 't were wrong in God the same, 

As God is just in thought and name ; 

A portion is for men to do, 

As Gods' he sees us in his view. 

A thief is he who having power, 

As king or prince, with tax devours 

The homes and pleasures of the poor, 

But smaller thieves break through the door. 

God is a spirit like to man 

Who thinks and works by rule and plan. 

All sins are great, however small 

Accumulating one and all ; 

So if we do not turn and give 

Our hearts to God we cannot live, 

For in the one or other way 

We are increasing day by day. 

A debt once paid is cancelled quite 

And wrong is cancelled with the right ; 

But if the wrongs alone exist, 

What good can come if we subsist ; 



74 ASSOCIATIONS. 

'Twere better not to have been born 

Unless some good we do perform. 

Hard labor in an honest way 

Will profit all men in their day, 

And they who scorn the working man 

Are thieves, no matter where they stand ; 

For labor can alone produce 

The food we eat and clothes for use. 

The smallest vice, the greatest sin, 

We scarcely feel it is within ; 

Temptation finds it by the way 

And then the vice begins to sway ; 

It overpowers the brain and all 

Of good resolves that we may fall. 

It was as large but yet unseen 

While many years, did intervene, 

It was contracted in our youth 

When all the vices seemed as truth. 

The young receive impressions all 

And store them up in spring for fall, 

Like seeds of thistle and of thorn 

With those of fruit and those of corn, 

Unable with their youthful brain 

To sift them o'er, hence all remain ; 

And which in after-years will grow, 

As they received again they sow. 



THE NEW TESTAMENT. 75 

A pure beginning would insure 

A perfect life entirely pure. 

'Tis not the parents' fault alone, 

However pure they may have sown, 

However careful they may be 

However great the family ; 

Associations will seduce, 

Corrupt the young with its abuse. 

A gray haired man with words of guile 

Upon his lips, is yet as vile 

As sewers are beneath a street, 

And should be shunned by all who meet. 

From men the youthful form their ways 

To spend their lives and end their days. 



THE NEW TESTAMENT. 



Forever new, forever bright, 

Like to the sun at noonday height ; 

Where, here and there, a cloud obscures 
Its direct rays which time endures. 



76 THE NEW TESTAMENT. 

Within its pages we may find 

That which will elevate the mind, 

And like the priesthood that we see, 
Let masses educated be. 

The testament in schools should be 
Taught over scientifically, 

Since it contains what most we need 
And teaches manliness indeed. 

Let every scholar who can read, 
Peruse, recite, declaim till freed ; 

And other reading matter shun 

In public schools when once begun. 

Excej)t in scientific truth, 
A spirit of immortal youth, 

The Roman church has never erred, 
Nor have the Protestants conferred. 

The poor will soil the velvet pew, 
Contaminate the preacher too ; 

So little has the church of grace 
That poverty is out of place. 



77 



BEECHER. 

Deep in the recess of his heart, 
Is sympathy for human woe ; 

Not perfect, many will exclaim, 

Who is more perfect that we know ? 

Unveil the hearts of all mankind, 
Each judging others by himself. 

Judge, Tilton's school by what we find ; 
Hear Tilton crying o'er the pelf, 

Who offered fruit from his own vine, 
Who said partake and share with me ; 

Whose downfall was his own design, 
The outcome of his theory. 

to 

But, if the evil which it wrought 

Is manifested to the world, 
A righteous lesson has been taught ; 

To future ages then unfurled ; 

And those who do not them forgive 

Have not a spiritual sight ; 
Forgiveness is the christian's sword 

For changiDg darkness into light. 



78 



DEATH 



We seek a shelter from its blast, 

We pride ourselves upon our worth ; 

None are exempt while life can last, 
We counteract its force with mirth. 

A million forms of sin there are, 
And some by none yet understood ; 

They come from near and from afar, 
They smite the bad and spare the good. 

We weep, we suffer pain, we die ; 

The causes are obscure and far — 
A million years may bring them nigh, 

But now we suffer as we are. 

Without the power to all fulfill, 

Which we behold and call by name ; 

Without the power to do thy will, 
Without the power to fix the blame. 

God speaks to us through pain of mind, 
Through pain of body all of sin ; 

A part we understand, nor all 

We comprehend, which is from Him, 



DEATH. 79 

Great God! when may we understand, 
And see with eyes which are divine ; 

When may we comprehend thy hand 
That cuts us down before our time. 



When shall we realise that pain, 
In any form denotes thy will ; 

Why are our efforts all in vain, 
Nor aught we would at all fulfill ? 

For sins of one a million fall, 
The sins of many on us press ; 

Associations are of all, 

The most to dread, the most to bless. 

Pain is the only law we know, 

Which leads us on to what is right t 

We suffer, and we do again, 
That which is evil in thy sight. 

We have no power to comprehend, 
Beyond that pain is present here ; 

For little pleasures we descend, 
To every evil that is near. 



80 INFIDELS. 

Give us thy mind wherewith we may, 
Distinguish 'twixt the good and bad ; 

Nor for the pleasures of a day, 

Do that which makes a lifetime sad. 



INFIDELS. 

All Infidels whenever found, 
In ancient times or modern bound, 
Denying revelation through, 
Ignore the good in Scriptures too ; 

A wild chemerical design 
Before their eyes seems, as divine ; 
Like Thomas Paine, and many more, 
Like Ingersoll, they close the door ; 

And like Voltaire, they search in vain 
That which the churches call profane ; 
As Plato, and the ancient school 
Of Epicurus, for a rule, 

Confucius, the Stoics too, 
Zoraster, and the ancients through ; 
Of which the fruit of all is found 
Within the Scriptures neatly bound. 



81 



ASSISTANCE. 



When man surveys that which is right, 
As seemeth best unto his sight, 
Let him not parley, but withstand 
Ttie words which women have at hand. 

Until, he can, without a shock 

Eeceive their blows, though hard they knock, 

He is but feminine withall, 

And totters for a sudden fall. 

The voice of woman is a blast, 
We feel its shock, which, soon as past 
Oat from the other quarter comes, 
Like thunder roars, and lightning runs. 

But he, the man, who can behold 
The tempest of a woman's scold ; 
Nor from his reverie be won, 
Hath her assistance as bernm. 



82 



MONSTROSITY. 



That which takes place in regular form 
Produces what before has been ; 

'Tis that which never was before, 
Irregular form, that's free from sin. 

Christ was thus born by Holy power, 
Conceived from longings of the soul ; 

'Tis woman's nature to be pure ; 

'Tis such that changes nature's whole, 

Which, taking place in plant and flower, 

In animal, as well as man ; 
Departing from what's been before, 

Is comprehending nature's plan. 

Thus marvel not that Christ was born, 
Conceived of spirit and of power ; 

But not of man, we see the same 
Is changing nature every hour. 



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